storage density is kind of ridiculous these days

you can get half-terabyte micro-sd cards

i wonder how those compare speed-wise to cheap SSDs

because a PCIe card reader + fast large SD card might be better performance than a similarly-priced SSD

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though i don't know if sd card controllers do fancy stuff like wear leveling

@Felthry they probably do

people don't tend to realize that there's a little computer inside of SD cards to do all kinds of fancy stuff

@monorail you can do lots of neat stuff when you have enough money for custom silicon

@monorail i don't know if it'd count as a computer really, since it isn't programmable or general-purpose afawk

@monorail @Felthry there's a whole talk about it on YouTube somewhere

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